15 May 2012
On May 15th 2012 three chimpanzees have been transferred from a Japanese
pharmaceutical company to Kumamoto Sanctuary, Wildlife Research Center,
Kyoto University.
Their names are: a female Candy and two males Musashi and Shoubou.
They were captured in the wild and then taken to Japan when they were only
infants.
Ever since, now for 30 years they have lived in small indoor cages,
isolated from each other until this transfer took place.
In their new home at Kumamoto Sanctuary, They can see the blue sky, step onto the ground and touch, laugh and even fight with their new group mates again three decades later.
Please join us through this report and see how they are gradually returning to be more natural, more social, like real
chimpanzees' life enriched.
English text: Michael Seres, based on original Japanese by Toshifumi Udono and Migaku Teramoto.